Advances in Insect Physiology: Insect Integument and Colour

✍ Scribed by Jérôme Casas and Stephen J. Simpson (Eds.)

Publisher: Academic Press, Elsevier
Year: 2010
Leaves: 364
Series: Advances in Insect Physiology 38
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Copyright Page
Page iv

Contributors
Pages vii-viii

Chapter 1 - Increasing Demands and Vanishing Expertise in Insect Integrative Biology
Pages 1-4
Jérôme Casas, Stephen J. Simpson

Chapter 2 - Chitin Biochemistry: Synthesis, Hydrolysis and Inhibition
Pages 5-74
Ephraim Cohen

Chapter 3 - Diverse Strategies of Protein Sclerotization in Marine Invertebrates: Structure–Property Relationships in Natural Biomaterials
Pages 75-133
Daniel J. Rubin, Ali Miserez, J. Herbert Waite

Chapter 4 - Insect Cuticular Surface Modifications: Scales and Other Structural Formations
Pages 135-180
Helen Ghiradella

Chapter 5 - Structural Colours
Pages 181-218
Jean-Pol Vigneron, Priscilla Simonis

Chapter 6 - Molecular and Physiological Basis of Colour Pattern Formation
Pages 219-265
H. Frederik Nijhout

Chapter 7 - Insect Colours and Visual Appearance in the Eyes of Their Predators
Pages 267-353
Marc Théry, Doris Gomez

Subject Index
Pages 355-364

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